Michael Macaulay

Michael Macaulay is Professor of Public Administration at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington. He was previously Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies. He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of York St John (UK), and is a former Visiting Professor at the Universities of Johannesburg (South Africa) and Sunderland (UK). He has published extensively in the fields of integrity, ethics and anti-corruption in leading international journals and was the NZ lead on the biggest cross-sectoral and cross-jurisdictional research project ever undertaken on workplace misconduct.

Michael has worked with numerous government agencies and NGOs in New Zealand and internationally, including the NZ Police, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) the Council of Europe and Transparency International. He has represented New Zealand at the Open Government Partnership Global (OGP) summit (2015) and the inaugural Asia-Pacific Regional Summit in 2014 and works extensively with civil society and government agencies to promote OGP initiatives throughout the country. He has advised Ministry of Justice, SSC, and various other agencies on legislative reform. In 2021 he was a speaker for the NZ delegation at the Pacific Unity Against Corruption convention in Kiribati.

Michael has developed Executive Education workshops around the world for the public, private and NFP sectors. His work on trust has been developed directly with practitioners in NZ and Australia, which underpins his teaching philosophy of creating tangible value and practical lessons for all learners. Away from the classroom Michael is a dad of two boys, a member of the Board of Trustees for Our Lady of Kapiti School, a former judge (Teesside Bench, UK), and coach for the magnificent Kapiti Coast United Spurs under-12s football team.

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